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Re: mmap visited files?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: mmap visited files? |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:07:26 +0200 (IST) |
On 18 Feb 2002 phr-2002@nightsong.com wrote:
> This is an idea for some unknown future Emacs. I wonder if it's
> feasible, when someone first visits a file, to simply mmap it instead
> of reading it all into memory.
In general, Emacs decodes the file's text when it reads it, so using mmap
won't make such a bug difference, I think.
Also, AFAIK mmap loses with NFS on some systems.